Word: yiddishism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early '30s, just before the Holocaust, the Singer brothers left Poland for the promised city. In New York Isaac worked for the Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish newspaper. "I remember thinking in those days," says the laureate, "if only somebody would guarantee me $15 a week, I could sit down and really do some work." The money was a long time coming. For two decades he was supported by his second wife, Alma, who worked as a salesclerk in Manhattan department stores. By the time of his brother's death in 1944, Singer had become a recognized writer...
Singer's works have been translated into many languages, but he continues to write only in Yiddish. However, he knows English well and will read and conduct his question-and-answer session in English, Gold said...
STOCKHOLM--Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Yiddish author, received the Nobel Prize for literature yesterday...
...wrote almost all of his work in Yiddish, and later translated it into English, either by himself or with the aid of others...
Janus discovered a generation gap among the comedians. Most who reached prominence before the 1950s grew up in large, Yiddish-speaking immigrant families in Brooklyn or on Manhattan's Lower East Side. About 80% came from kosher homes and 90% later anglicized their names. Younger comedians are better educated, have less contact with Jewish ritual and are more likely to break away from traditional Jewish humor to deliver social or political messages in their acts. Says Janus: "The older ones changed their names and relieved their tensions with booze. The younger ones lie about their age and dabble with pills...